Former WWE superstar Sasha Banks who is now known as Mercedes Mone since her departure from World Wrestling Entertainment and joined Japanese wrestling. Now a report is going around that she is currently learning Japanese because she is planning to move to Japan permanently.
Currently assigned to NJPW wrestler Mercedes Mone is doing great in Japan. She has won many championships since her joining and currently is IWGP Women’s Champion. Recently at the pay-per-view of the STARDOM show she successfully defended her title against Hazuki & AZM.
Recently in an Instagram post, she told fans that she is definitely moving to Japan and in fact, she is learning the Japanese language from a langue school. In the caption of the post, she wrote “definitely moving full-time to Japan”.
Mone’s contract with New Japanese Pro Wrestling (NJPW) has expired after her last match in which she defended her title at STARDOM and she is hoping to extend the contract for at least a year. However, there is no report from NJPW renewing her contract. Still, if NJPW didn’t extend the date of her deal, the doors from WWE will always be open for her former champion.
Sasha Banks at WWE
She began her career in wrestling in 2010, working on the independent circuit under the ring name Mercedes KV. In 2012, she signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to NXT.
In NXT, Sasha Banks quickly established herself as one of the brand’s top female wrestlers. She won the NXT Women’s Championship in 2015 and had several memorable matches with other NXT standouts like Bayley and Becky Lynch. She later got promoted to the main roster of the women’s division and won many Championships there as well.
In 2022 she left the company when she and her tag partner Naomi got some issues with the creative decision from the official team of WWE. At an episode of RAW, they get into the room of officials and left their Tag Team Champions title, and exit the arena. Then the reports came that Sasha Banks and Naomi said goodbye to WWE.
